As a part of the AWS CloudWatch Synthetics Monitoring and Observability team, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the health and reliability of services and web applications through external monitoring. Our vision is to provide our customers with preemptive full-stack monitoring to detect user-impact before their users do. We provide customers with automation tools to define scripted-actions to monitor their applications, and we provide schedulers for millions of automation runs. We empower customers to emulate users' journeys through their application and services. AWS CloudWatch Synthetics empowers businesses of all sizes.

We’re looking for exceptional engineers and problem solvers who are passionate about delivering awesome customer-facing products, and building solutions that solves critical business needs, at AWS scale. As an experienced developer on our team, you will tackle complex challenges, and work with a highly skilled team to deliver solutions through working backwards from real-world problems. You will work across the entire distribute service stack, and build on top of native AWS solutions. You will have opportunities to influence the technical direction of the team. You will design, build, and deliver new features and services from the ground up, and scale them while advancing your career.

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Key job responsibilities
As an experienced Software Development Engineer, your primary role will be to maintain a high standard of design and delivery of software engineering solutions for customers through sound architecture, design, and implementing software solutions for Synthetics monitoring, including highly consistent canary scheduling, fast and lightweight canary runtimes, and canary run triage and analysis. You will write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in languages such as Java, Go, NodeJS, or Python leveraging AWS serverless and managed services like ECS, Lambda, EC2, APIGateway, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, and new technologies. During delivery of customer features and improvements you will conduct thorough testing, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests, to ensure the reliability and accuracy of Synthetics monitoring services. Operationally you will own building and maintaining the infrastructure necessary for canary monitoring, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance under varying workloads.

To deliver on behalf of customers you will continuously collaborate with stakeholders to understand customer requirements and translate them into actionable features and enhancements. You will be empowered to evaluate and enhance monitoring capabilities based on feedback, industry best practices, and emerging technologies.